Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 7, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Sunday, September 7, 2008 Customer Development Engineering Yesterday, I had the opportunity to guest lecture again in Steve Blank s entrepreneurship class at the Berkeley-Columbia executive MBA program. Its a nice complement on the product engineering side to his customer development methodology.

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Up and Running

NOVEMBER 4, 2020

Mobile app usage now makes up more than 50% of all internet traffic. After all, there is nothing better than being able to remotely manage every aspect of your business from the palm of your hand. These are all questions that you can answer without a degree in software engineering. . Does your company need a mobile app?

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 27, 2012

The site lets users manage their campaigns, thank donors and even communicate with supporters. Founded by interaction designer Brad Damphousse and software engineer Andrew Ballester, GoFundMe was first conceptualized back in 2008 when both were driven by personal tragedies that led to want to use their talents for good.

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The Startup Magazine

OCTOBER 29, 2018

Evaluate your potential developers’ knowledge, experience, and the skills listed on their software engineer resume. Since many businesses now take advantage of the benefits of remote workers, it’s important to understand how to manage a remote team. Cost-savings with the more affordable developer and IT project manager salary.

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Feld Thoughts

JULY 22, 2011

At this point we are planning to use a consumer Internet company as an example, but we are also considering using a SaaS-based software company. As a special bonus for me, I get to work with four students on a project. I love working with and mentoring students, and am especially thrilled when they proactively reach out to me.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 6, 2008

Steveys Blog Rants: Good Agile, Bad Agile : "Google is an exceptionally disciplined company, from a software-engineering perspective. They work hard to keep their house in order at all times, and there are strict rules and guidelines in place that prevent engineers and teams from doing things their own way.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JANUARY 15, 2012

Mid- to large-size companies can also benefit from the lean methodology and one way to do so is by actively leveraging crowds of workers: designers , software engineers , testers , writers , customer support people , customers, market researchers , and dozens of other groups via the Internet.

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rob.by

MARCH 8, 2012

He argued that software engineers don’t finish what they start, and that you’re better off paying a technical person than partnering with one. He picked engineers who were technically-driven but not entrepreneurially-driven. He picked engineers who weren’t comfortable taking risks as great as he wanted to take.

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Growthink Blog

NOVEMBER 1, 2010

In 20 years we will look back at the first few elections of the global Internet age the way we remember the smoky backrooms of elections past. As in where to build that electric car plant, where to put that server farm, where to assemble that team of software engineers. It is the choices that capital makes. Why will this happen?

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crowdSPRING Blog

JULY 27, 2010

Also consider how people with slower internet connections will view your site. Search engines prefer websites that are properly organized. You probably already know that search engines index sites based on the quality of content (and links). Tip: Consider how the URLs on your site will look to search engines and people.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JULY 27, 2010

Also consider how people with slower internet connections will view your site. Search engines prefer websites that are properly organized. You probably already know that search engines index sites based on the quality of content (and links). Tip: Consider how the URLs on your site will look to search engines and people.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 4, 2008

In 2007, BusinessWeek named Ries one of the Best Young Entrepreneurs of Tech and in 2009 he was honored with a TechFellow award in the category of Engineering Leadership. I got my start programming on an old IBM XT; it was thanks to MUDs that I first discovered the internet. An engineer who can talk intelligently about gender!

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Steve Blank

MAY 11, 2009

Present at the Creation It was early 1991 and Apple’s software development team was hard at work on QuickTime , the first multimedia framework for a computer. At the time no one (including Apple) knew exactly what consumers were going to do with multimedia, it was still pre-Internet. The software was idiot proof.

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bizthoughts.mikelee.org

MARCH 8, 2012

BizThoughts Thoughts about business, technology, the web & entrepreneurship About Booklist Contact Nov 15 2011 Finding a Technical Cofounder By Mike Lee Categories: Entrepreneurship , Leadership Since I have a technical background, I get about one offer a month to join some engineering team, or to be a technical cofounder.

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www.joelonsoftware.com

MARCH 24, 2010

Fog Creek explicitly recognizes that many good software engineers have no desire whatsoever to do "management" or to take on a formal personnel management role. So all Fog Creek software engineers are ranked at one of several different levels, level 8 through level 15.

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blog.captainrecruiter.com

MARCH 8, 2012

An Internet entrepreneur needs a website. Two years ago I got the bug to do an online recruiting startup and I began the hunt to find a technical co-founder - a software engineer who works for no cash - to help me build my dream website. Most software engineers arent business people. Real Advice. No Nonsense.

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www.geekwire.com

JULY 10, 2012

But Seattle entrepreneur Aaron Roberts, a former engineer… Read More. Software Developer. Senior Software Engineer - Web-based Applications. at Tableau Software. Front-end UI Software Engineer. Manager, Test Engineering (Performance Team). at Tableau Software. at Avvo, Inc.

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techcocktail.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

be the manager and product developer). Leader/Project Manager – Someone in the organization must drive the plan and keep people focused on a daily basis. Developer – Most likely your product requires some engineering. Software Engineer—PHP—Energy Software for the Smart Grid @ Agentis Energy (Elmhurst, IL) Sr.

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www.reincubate.com

FEBRUARY 1, 2010

Start-ups often hire at one extreme -- closer to a Lead Developer or VP of Engineering -- whereas corporates may focus on their CIO, which is potentially quite a different role. Strategic Report to the CEO or board as an active part of the senior management team. Firstly, theres no one-size-fits-all description.

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Rob Go

SEPTEMBER 9, 2013

MITX : Non-profit trade association hosting many events focused on digital marketing and internet business. Extension Engine - Software engineering and design. BitSight - Risk Management (backed by Flybridge and Menlo). VM Turbo – Virtualization Management (backed by Bain, Highland). Next major event?

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 8, 2009

I thought a good place to start was with the origins of the idea that "software design" should be considered a discipline in its own right, on par with computer science, software engineering, and computer programming. Great engineers see it and smile. This is called set-based concurrent engineering (SBCE). [1]

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crowdSPRING Blog

FEBRUARY 9, 2010

It inevitably involves data and content caching, one of the most difficult aspects, engineering-wise, of web development. Of course, software consultants make their money by developing software. On that note, don’t get too caught up in the “cloud computing” buzz when it comes to choosing software technology.

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blogs.computerworlduk.com

JANUARY 15, 2011

In case your computer industry history is lacking, WS-I is the industry consortium that got together a decade ago to create specifications for Web Services protocols (note the capitals, so as not to confuse with actual internet services that use HTTP and REST for loosely-coupled data access).

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Duct Tape Marketing

JANUARY 2, 2018

Dark, dirty and dangerous — mention the 3Ds of old-time manufacturing and HR managers shudder. As a manufacturing engineer, Bianco takes design specifications, puts them into work instructions and then works to ensure that satellite hardware is built correctly. The largest generation in the U.S. By Steve Minter, Industry Week .

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mashable.com

NOVEMBER 30, 2010

Brett Miller is the president of Custom Software by Preston (CSP). For more than 10 years CSP has impressed clients with highly effective software solutions and teams of multi-talented software engineers. The underlying questions to ask here are simple: Do you want to manage the small details of the project?

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

We’ve got an incredible engineering team that cares a lot about system design, architecture and user experience. He also built a number of key open source libraries used by many large Internet companies around the world (see ). We’re very excited about the evolution of the Internet and our primary gateway to it, Web Browsers.

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crowdSPRING Blog

MARCH 4, 2014

If you use an off-the-shelf template and your website looks like thousands of other sites on the Internet, you’ll miss an opportunity to create a unique impression. Also consider how people with slower internet connections will view your site. Search engines prefer websites that are properly organized.

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Reid Hoffman

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

Entrepreneurs build great companies, but after those companies become established and those entrepreneurs are no longer driving them forward, the leaders who rise and succeed at those companies are more likely to be managers and caretakers who achieved their position executing the status quo. Success imprints more strongly than failure.

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Reid Hoffman

MAY 16, 2020

In a quote that’s often attributed to Charles Darwin – but was in fact a Louisiana State University management professor paraphrasing Darwin in 1963 , “It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent that survives. At that point I was a few years into my career and working as a project manager at Apple.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JANUARY 4, 2016

If you use an off-the-shelf template and your website looks like thousands of other sites on the Internet, you’ll miss an opportunity to create a unique impression. Also consider how people with slower internet connections will view your site. Search engines prefer websites that are properly organized.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 29, 2008

Finding great engineers is hard; figuring out whos good is even harder. Balancing competing objectives is a recurring theme on this blog - its the central challenge of all management decisions. For software engineers, I think this absolutely has to be a programming problem solved on a whiteboard. Communication.

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The Startup Magazine

FEBRUARY 24, 2019

The majority of consumers thinks that it’s just a better and faster version of mobile Internet like it was with 4G LTE. It becomes pretty clear that the most significant benefits from the emergence of 5G will get the Internet of Things also well-known as IoT. What is 5G? Anyway, it’s only a part of the truth to know.

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The Next Web

AUGUST 19, 2013

Mikita Mikado is a software engineer and entrepreneur from Belarus, now based in San Francisco. I’m a geek and software engineer from the former ­Soviet state of Belarus. You can get in touch with an ereseller with just a cold email, and you can be your first resellers’ program manager.

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Women Entrepreneurs Can

APRIL 14, 2020

So don’t look for a sample test on the internet and use it to know if the aspirants will be a good fit or not. Most software engineers are excellent at what they do, which is essentially tasks that involve coding. Test aspiring workers with real-life examples of challenges to expect in the company.

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ConversionXL

JANUARY 21, 2019

Slow delivery times : When it comes to managing ecommerce logistics—coordinating online orders, fulfilment, and shipping—hiccups are inevitable. This was a couple of software engineers who put this in for whatever reason [.] I did not think that something like this was possible at Volkswagen Group [.] Both are toxic for a brand.

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Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 8, 2008

Heres how Fowler describes it: I vividly remember one of my first sightings of a large software project. My manager, part of the QA group, gave me a tour of a site and we entered a huge depressing warehouse stacked full with cubes. Amazing lean startup resources Is Entrepreneurship a Management Science?

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 26, 2020

How have you managed your own psychology and how have you managed to kind of maintain the equanimity that's needed to lead a company during these times? And that disappointment, I think that is the biggest lift for me right now is to manage my own disappointment. I have a bachelor's in computer science and computer engineering.

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